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Book Synopsis"My Reptile" Little frilléd lizard with your big mouth and your clutch of egg. Pure urge iguana I wanna wanna wannaheavy pet in a moist habitat. Your dewlap licks down my spine; your creep yearns, yearns your crawl, like a small machine that you rev and rev and rev until the engine floods. Gin and bleach: two clear liquids aiming for purity, bordering the toxic. Catherine Wing's poems are soaked in her cocktail, mixing doubt, loneliness, rough elbows, and razor focus. It riddles, aiming askew for a straight answer: how do we make our way through this world?
Trade Review"Wittily rhymed and bloodily vivid, Wing’s poems of romance and damage show the poet seeking something to 'overwhelm me, a love-in-the-mist sort of time.'" Publishers Weekly Catherine Wing’s Gin & Bleach aims to burn us clear (as only corrosives like gin and bleach can do) to a better understanding of our place in the world.” Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert
"Wittily rhymed and bloodily vivid, Wing’s poems of romance and damage show the poet seeking something to 'overwhelm me, a love-in-the-mist sort of time.'" —Publishers Weekly “Catherine Wing’s Gin & Bleach aims to burn us clear (as only corrosives like gin and bleach can do) to a better understanding of our place in the world.” —Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert
Table of ContentsLady Aphrodite Wide Heart Possible Audiences for this Work I’m Dominant Tom Trash Bird Field Guide Fine Point The Brain Truck Petit Zeus Conditions of ISH A Mano Twelve Bar Blues Vitreous Humor Dance, misery! I Ask Myself How Shadow Shot the Aerialist Self-Medication To a Wigglehead Oh You Area 25 My Reptile Still Murmur The Chiefest Word Inner Weather Self-Portrait with Doubt Couplets Tom Cat at the Kit Kat Club On and Off, Again Counting Song #5 Night Song Death Marching Song The Etruscans Count Down Song Eye-Fucked Moth-Summoning Song Amor, Amar Cobbled Song Your Other Other Tom & Jerry Tailspin Here, There The Answer to the Riddle The Darker Sooner Enough How It All Fell Out
